We're starting fresh with Episode 89 and will be posting the back catalogue of episodes over time. 

Rebecca and I kick-start this episode with a look back at 2022 and hear from Rebecca about her year-long Sock Colour SAL that she hosted in the community. I really like the idea of having a smaller ALONG with everyone, based on a specific learning outcome around socks - about a yarn structure, colour management, fibre blend, etc. that would last a set amount of time. Let me know in the comments what you think! 

For those who haven't met Rebecca before, find out more on The Wool Circle Index here & find Rebecca Osborn here.

From there, we talked about challenges that came up in the year and finally, we introduce our Year of Colour! We talk about remaining nimble to be able to pivot, as well as spend more time on things as we need to. 

Our Year of Colour will begin with a couple of months on theory with Rachel and building our personal Colour Wheels with Rebecca. There seems to be three ways that people in our community are interacting with colour at this time:

• Dyeing
• Blending
• Managing colour (ie. in handpainted braids, combing colours in knitting/weaving, or other ways of engaging in colour)

Rachel will be putting out calls to the community each month for help with sampling and showing these different concepts in our handspun yarns - if you are interested, be sure to watch the Slack Channel (channel @spinningpurls) and Ravelry group (thread here) for more. 

See you next month with an interview with Rachel's mom, Janet! We can't wait!

Things we talked about on this episode:

• Spinning Staples Virtual Group here
• Queries & Explorations Virtual Group here
• Sock Colour SAL - Ravelry thread here
• Rachel's How I Spin: A Sock Study here (PDF)
• Color in Spinning by Deb Menz here
• ColorWorks by Deb Menz here

Music: Felicity by Scott Buckley – scottbuckley.com.au

Happy New Year!

Warmly,

Rachel & Rebecca

I hope you enjoyed our conversation. If this is your first time tuning into Wool n’ Spinning Radio, welcome. This audio podcast is a spin-off from the original podcast available on YouTube at youtube.com/RachelSmith. Rachel has been podcasting since 2014, talking about handspinning and making yarn. Her passion is working with her handspun yarns in projects, both knit and woven. Links to the website, Instagram and more are available in the show notes and at Patreon.com/woolnspinning.

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